{"id":2644,"date":"2013-08-14T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2013-08-14T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:58:47","slug":"the-onion-pokes-fun-at-copy-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/08\/14\/the-onion-pokes-fun-at-copy-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Pokes Fun at Copy Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its trademark satirical manner, the <em>Onion<\/em> has a humorous go at stereotypical copy editors and their fuss over grammar. Here is an extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAt this time we have reason to believe the killings were gang-related and carried out by adherents of both the AP and Chicago styles, part of a vicious, bloody feud to establish control over the grammar and usage guidelines governing American English,\u201d said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein, showing reporters graffiti tags in which the word \u201canti-social\u201d had been corrected to read \u201cantisocial.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onion.com\/TGQ6RH\">onion.com\/TGQ6RH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its trademark satirical manner, the Onion has a humorous go at stereotypical copy editors and their fuss over grammar. Here is an extract: \u201cAt this time we have reason to believe the killings were gang-related and carried out by adherents of both the AP and Chicago styles, part of a vicious, bloody feud to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48395,302,48396,48394,48397,4779,48398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}